Strong G630G630Gἀπολύω

to release: release

One of the 2 senses of Strong G630

Transliteration
apoluō
Pronunciation
ap-ol-oo'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G575 and G3089; to free fully that is (literally) relieve release 6
dismiss (reflexively depart) or (figuratively) let die pardon or (specifically) divorce: - (let) depart dismiss divorce forgive let go loose put (send) away release set at liberty.

Detailed definition

ἀπο-λύω
[in LXX for שׁוּב, etc., frequently in 1-4 Mac;]
1. to set free, release: Luk.13:12, Jhn.19:10, al.; a debtor, Mat.18:27; metaphorically, of forgive­ness, Luk.6:37.

2. to let go, dismiss (Field, Notes, 9 f.): Mat.15:23, Luk.2:29 9:12, Act.19:41, al.; of divorce, τ. γυναῖκα: Mat.1:19 5:31-32 19:3, 8 19:10 Mrk.10:2, 4 10:11, Luk.16:18; with ref. to Gk. and Rom. (net Jewish) custom, τ. ἄνδρα: Mrk.10:12. Mid., to depart: Act.28:25 (MM, see word)
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G630G appears in 35 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • release14
  • go7
  • send4
  • away2
  • dismiss2
  • liberty2
  • loose2
  • depart1
  • forgive1
  • forgiven1

First verses

  1. Matthew 15:32
    Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
  2. Matthew 15:39
    And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
  3. Matthew 18:27
    Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
  4. Matthew 27:15
    Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
  5. Matthew 27:17
    Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
  6. Matthew 27:21
    The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
  7. Matthew 27:26
    Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
  8. Mark 6:45
    And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
  9. Mark 8:3
    And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
  10. Mark 8:9
    And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
  11. Mark 15:6
    Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
  12. Mark 15:9
    But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
  13. Mark 15:11
    But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
  14. Mark 15:15
    And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
  15. Luke 6:37
    Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
  16. Luke 8:38
    Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
  17. Luke 13:12
    And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
  18. Luke 14:4
    And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
  19. Luke 23:16
    I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
  20. Luke 23:18
    And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπολύω
[see. λύω], future -λύσω, etc.: future passive
A ἀπολελύσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.37)]:—loose from, ἱμάντα θοῶς ἀπέλυσε κορώνης[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.46)]; ὄφρ᾽ ἀπὸ τοίχους λῦσε κλύδων τρόπιος the sides of the ship from the keel, [Refs ([prev. work] 12.420)]; undo, ἀπὸ κρήδεμνον ἔλυσεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 3.392; ἐπιδέσματα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 25.)]
A.2 set free, release, relieve from, ἀ. τινὰ τῆς φρουρῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30; τῆς ἐπιμελείας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.47; τῶν ἐκεῖ κακῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 365a; τὴν ψυχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ σώματος κοινωνίας [prev. author] “Phd.” 65a, compare 67a)]; ἀ. τῆς μετρήσεως save them from the trouble of measuring, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1257a40)]:— passive, to be set free, τῶν δεινῶν, φόβου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, 7.56, etc.)]
A.2.b frequently in legal sense, ἀ. τῆς αἰτίης acquit of the charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.6.15)]; opposed to καταψηφίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 262; τῆς εὐθύνης 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 571: with)]infinitive, ἀ. τινὰ μὴ φῶρα εἶναι acquit of being a thief, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.174; so ἀπολύεται μὴ ἀδικεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.95, compare 128)]: absolutely, acquit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 988, 1000, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.20, etc.)]
A.II in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” always, ={ἀπολυτρόω})], release on receipt of ransom, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλυσε θύγατρα καὶ οὐκ ἀπεδέξατ᾽ ἄποινα[Refs (1.95; Ἕκτορ᾽ ἔχει.. οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλυσεν 24.115, +others)]:—middle, set free by payment of ransom, ransom, redeem, χαλκοῦ τε χρυσοῦ τ᾽ ἀπολυσόμεθ᾽ at a price of.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.50)] (but active in Prose, ἀπολύειν πολλῶν χρημάτων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.21).)]
A.II.2 let go, let alone, leave one, of an illness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 564.)]
A.III discharge, disband an army, ἀ. οἴκαδε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.21)]; generally, dismiss, discharge, ἐμὲ.. ἀπέλυσ᾽ ἄδειπνον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1155, compare 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.96.)]
A.III.2 divorce a wife, [NT+1st c.BC+ (NT.Matt.1.19, etc.; τὸν ἄνδρα 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.18.)]
A.III.3 do away with, remove, αἰσχύνην[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.47)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.5.)]
A.III.4 discharge or pay a debt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 417b)]; pay, ἀ. τὸν χαλκόν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 490 (1st c.BC))]; pay off a mortgage, [Refs (“POxy.” 509.15.)]
A.III.5 dismiss a charge, εἰσαγγελία ὑπὸ τοῦ κατηγόρου ἀπολελυμένη[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Euxenippo” 38.)]
A.IV ἀ. ἀνδράποδα Θρᾳξίν sell, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.20)]; ἀ. οἰκίαν τινί sell a mortgaged house outright, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.33.)]
A.V deliver, τί τινι[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PFlor.” 123.2 (3rd c.AD):)] —passive [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (, [prev. work] 228.6 (3rd c.AD).)]
A.VI begin to count, [μοίρας] ἀπό.. Vett. Val. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (135: _absolutely_, [prev. author] 19.19, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “Q.” 2.)]
A.VII intransitive, depart (cf. B.IV, C. 2), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.69.14, +others)]
B middle with aorist 2 ἀπελύμην (in passive sense), [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.128)]:— redeem, see above [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.)]
B.II ἀπολύεσθαι διαβολάς do away with, refute calumnies against one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 37b, +others: _absolutely_, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1416b9.)]
B.II.2 τὴν αἰτίαν, τὰς βλασφημίας, τὰ κατηγορημένα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.75, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 15.2, 18.4: with _genitive_, τῶν εἰς Ἀριστόβουλον -σασθαι 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 15.3.5.)]
B.II.2.b refute, τοὺς ἐναντίους λόγους[Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 126 ter: _absolutely_, ὁ δὲ ἀπολυόμενος ἔφη)]in defence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.59.)]
B.III like active, acquit, τοῦ μὴ κακῶς ἔχειν ἀλλ᾽ ὀρθῶς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 637c.)]
B.III.2 release from, τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἀ. δουλείας[Refs ([prev. author] “Mx.” 245a.)]
B.IV like passive (with [Refs (11),)]depart, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1314)]; also, put off, πνεῦμα ἀ.[Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.276 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus); but πνεῦμα μελῶν ἀπέλυε “IG” 14.607e (from Carales).)]
C passive, to be released, ἐλπίζων τοὺς υἱέας τῆς στρατηΐης ἀπολελύσθαι from military service, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.84, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.37)]; τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀπολυθῆναι βουλόμενοι to be freed from their rule, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8; τῶν δεινῶν μηδέποτε οἴεσθαι ἀπολυθήσεσθαι [prev. author] 1.70; τῆς ὑποψίας 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.3; τῆς μιαρίας [prev. work] 3.11)]: absolutely, to be acquitted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.29)]; to be absolved from, τῶν ἀδικημάτων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113d.)]
C.II of combatants, to be separated, part, οὐ ῥᾳδίως ἀπελύοντο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.49)]; generally, to be separated or detached, ἀλλήλων or ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1031b3, “Ph.” 185a28; ἀ. τὰ ᾠὰ τῆς ὑστέρας [prev. author] “GA” 754b18, +others)]; ἀπολελυμένος, absolutely, detached, αἰδοῖον, γλῶττα, ὄρχεις, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 500b2, 533a27, 535b2)]; τὴν γλῶτταν ἀ. having its tongue detached, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 319, +others)]; also, distinct, differentiated, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 497b22.)]
C.II.2 depart, ἔθανες, ἀπελύθης, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1268 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.58.4, +others, LXX.Num.20.29, +others; compare above 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus IV.)]
C.III of a child, to be brought forth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 11, compare 24, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 745b11)]; of the mother, to be delivered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.2.17.)]
C.IV to be annulled, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1156a22.)]
C.V ἀπολελυμένος, η, ον, absolute, especially in Grammars, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 636.15, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 97.20, +others)]: also, general, of meaning, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Olympiodorus Alchemista p.72B.)]
C.VI of metres, irregular, without strophic responsion, [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” 5.)]